After submitting to a marriage proposal coupled with a threat to her life, we go back in time to see a gangster's moll contemplate leaving her captor once and for all. In the meantime, it's business as usual for the cocaine-dealing mafioso. Reverse chronology poetically captures the inevitable need for escape that is felt intuitively by anyone knowingly in harm's way. The desolation of the story's seaside Malibu locale visually mirrors the emotional rift between heroine and villain.
